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This, ladies and gentle-plebs, is why you should fear the horrible oppression a meritocracy would impose on your betters, and choose for us to live free and consequences free lives where we can fuck you all over as much as we like without ever fearing facing anything remotely like consequences. Your fucking welcome and get the fuck back to work and stop complaining about how you have no food to eat. Be creative and eat cake you morons.

Yeah, exactly.

That is what I have been saying all along. Oppression works.

Although that does not really apply to China, for historical reason.

Chairman Mao said it best, "A single spark can start a prairie fire."
 

Eventine

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Depends on the culture. Many formerly colonized countries are mentally and socially weak, and perversely desire to be colonize and dominated by others. That masochistic urge creates "death cultures", death either by self-implosion or foreign exploitation.

It also comes from the desire to keep their status as the "middle bully" where by prostrating and brownnosing before their colonial masters, they can sh_t on their neighbors whom they see as "lower races".


Go to the burgeoning African states and majority of them are not white-worshipers, despite a large portion of their elites educated in the West. Perhaps it's because they know they will never be "honorary whites", so the temptation never exists.

Look at the bids from South America and Africa for their own permanent seats at the UNSC. Since when have you heard something ballsy like that come out of ASEAN?
Honestly it’s not whether they’ve been colonized - most of Africa and the Middle East were Western colonies - but whether their modern societies are modeled after the West & infiltrated by Western media & organizations.

Compare North and South Korea. Liberal democracies even failed ones tend to worship the West, communist societies much less so.
 

Strangelove

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Along with Jakarta, Bangkok, Venice, Lagos & others...


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New York is sinking – study​

The weight of the Big Apple’s skyscrapers is slowly pushing the city into the sea, American researchers have found

New York City is subsiding by up to 2mm every year under the weight of its own buildings, a recently published study has claimed. The authors warned that this slow descent will be exacerbated by rising sea levels.

More than eight million people live in New York, and the city’s five boroughs are home to more than 1.08 million individual buildings, from single-family houses in Queens to the towering skyscrapers of Downtown Manhattan. In a
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published in the Earth’s Future journal this month, researchers at the University of Rhode Island calculated that all of these structures combined weigh 1.68 trillion pounds, or 762 million metric tons.

All of this mass is causing the city to subside by between one and two millimeters per year, the researchers claimed. While some of New York’s largest buildings are anchored to the solid bedrock beneath Manhattan, others are built on loosely compacted soil and clay. Some buildings in the latter category are subsiding twice as fast as the former, the scientists explained.

While a subsidence rate of a millimeter per year may be imperceptible to those living in New York, the entire eastern seaboard of the US is subsiding much faster as glacial deposits put down during the last ice age continue to retract. According to earlier research cited by the latest study, this glacial retreat could cause the east coast – including New York – to subside by as much as 1,500mm by 2100.

Combined with a 220mm rise in sea levels recorded around the city since 1950, some of Lower Manhattan, which sits between 1,000mm and 2,000mm above sea level, could be underwater by the end of this century.

More frequent storms and hurricanes, which some scientists attribute to climate change, could also speed up the erosion of soil and damage to buildings, the study noted.

“It’s not something to panic about immediately but there’s this ongoing process that increases the risk of inundation from flooding,” Tom Parsons, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey, told
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on Friday. City authorities, he added, “have to get planning for this. If you get repeated exposure to seawater, you can corrode steel and destabilize buildings, which you clearly don’t want. Flooding also kills people, too, which is probably the greatest concern.”
 
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China will skip the upcoming G20 event in the Indian-controlled part of disputed Kashmir, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday.

“China firmly opposes holding any form of G20 meetings on disputed territory. We will not attend such meetings,” Wang said while answering a reporter’s question at his regular press conference.
Play territorial and boycott games with China. China can do the same to you. Anyway the G20 is a Western-led initiative. It's no longer productive to attend such events. The last G20 event in India was proof of that.

Saudi Arabia and Türkiye have also decided to skip the Kashmir event, NDTV reported.
India's problems are bigger than just China. It had pissed off the Muslim world with Kashmir. Not even Western efforts to slander China on Xinjiang is working at all.
 

manqiangrexue

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Cheap compared to what? where you get this low quality of life when there are 130m Mexican with millions more Americans residing in Mexico and those Mexican are not after so called 9 to 5 jobs in US.
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Lower GDP per capita and lower average wages than the US. You need data for this basic knowledge too? Google it.

Most of this conversation can be summed up by you being an idiot by:

1. Attempting to assert that Mexico and the US have roughly the same average standard of living. It's wrong and if it were not for your other comments, it would be the stupidest thing anyone has posted on this thread.

These aren't exact or without bias, but literally no one except you has ever put Mexico's living standard on par with America's:
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2. You attempting to debate about soft power despite failing multiple times to even define it. Wanna try again? As far as I see, this whole thing could stem from your misunderstanding on what constitutes soft and hard power.
Its all depend on classification. in Mexico business and tourism is now so intermingle that its hard to separate.
Yeah, by common classification, I am right. By an imaginary classification you made used by only you, you can pretend that what's obviously true cannot be proven, in which case you pretend to be right.
Its definition of a competent. Any Country that can deal with US airline traffic especially when there are surge during peak tourist season. Its a 38 cities in such narrow area.
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This is your definition only. Cite me a source where anyone other than you defines national competency by the abiilty to handle air traffic.
Construction is not menial labor as far as rates in US they will be well above Software engineers outside US and
What??? Construction worker's labor rates in the US are well about software engineers outside?? How is that relevent?
certainly not all hispanic are Mexican.
Doesn't matter. They came for the money. That's the point.
Demographics is Soft Power. you dont even understand the basics.
You can't even define "soft power." Demographics is in your population being able to do work. Work and doing things is hard power. This is why you're confused all the time.
Is there data for Cheap?
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It is considerably cheaper to live in Mexico than in the United States. While there are more and less expensive cities in Mexico, you’re likely to have an objectively better lifestyle in Mexico than in the U.S. given the same level of resources. Overall consumer prices are nearly 100% lower, not including rent. And if you add rent into the mix, they are almost 140% lower. Rent alone is a whopping 275% lower. Restaurant prices and grocery prices both hover right around 100% lower as well.

However, local purchasing power — meaning, what you can buy with what you can earn locally — is also quite a bit lower than in the U.S. (nearly 165% lower, in fact). So the expats who will fare best are those with incomes from outside of Mexico. These might be U.S. or European retirement pensions, investment returns, passive income from royalties, or remote-work salaries."
you simply cannot provide data and randomly throwing numbers.
LOLOL That's exactly what you do.
US GDP per capita is skewed by foreign born medical staff and software engineers. Mexico has more balanced economy that still provide high population growth with life expectancy surpassing US in most measures with much less spending on health.
Mexican GDP per capita is lower. US pay is higher. That's all there is to it for why Mexicans come here.
These all add upto 5 million people over 15 years. which is even less than 5% of 130m.
5% emigration is enormous, you imbecile.
Its Mexico culture, values and soft power that made such cohesive nation under democracy next to over helming Money printing of US.
It's Mexican culture, values and soft power, which is why Americans need armed guards 24/7 by the border to prevent immigrant hordes charging through?
Thats why there should be more indepth study before money hand over fist.
That's not a reply to a survey that said exactly what you wanted to pretend wasn't true. They literally surveryed Mexicans why they want to enter the US. The top answer by far was economic reasons. And you still pretend that Mexico has a better economy than the US and they are moving for American soft power? You really can't shut your mouth and be graceful about being wrong, can you?
how do you know they didnot gain Soft Power?. Soft Power is gradually built over past success. and certain thing may not be visible to outsiders immediately.
Because there is no demonstrable difference. No difference = soft power means soft power is useless. The way you argue, everybody can always say they're gaining soft power everyday but it has absolutely no meaning. And Airport expansion is money, hard power again.
Every nation has status that other with money cannot achieve. Kuwait knows even if it spends that money it cannot become Qatar. so better not spend on this side of Soft Power. Qatar can balance both is religious and Modern angle but Kuwait cannot. thats why you should really understand Soft Power of each country.
This is diarrhea. The entire paragraph literally means nothing. I asked how you figure, or by what measure you term Kuwait's soft power as lower than Qatar's and your answer is that Kuwait is not Qatar. You're an idiot.
do you know behind the scenes US and German conversation?.
No, do you? Or you just guess soft power everything?
Germany has image and Soft Power it want to preserve. for the rest it want to use other countries like Lithuania when it speak out. Germany want to transition away from this Fossil fuel based Industry. what convenient way than now. It is much easy to rally its population when there are image of war on TVs.

Germany soft power is global driving force behind Bilderbergs, WEF, MSC and COP and all other things that you see. German soft power gave it oversize role in setting agendas and let other drive it.
You can say soft power everything but you connect nothing. You can't even define soft power but you say it is responsible for everything like a Christian says God controls all. This is just more diarrhea.
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So the German president "warned" US president about climate change and he did what? Fire up all coal plants and "unleash US energy" which is all fossil fuels. German soft power = nothing. US hard power dictates what happens.
you make a statement without any evidence to back up.
You have never provided any evidence for soft power; just show that an event happened, and say soft power caused it. None of your arguments are ever supported.
how do you know engineers are different than others?
Not different. All people who side with their own country and people do it from natural instinct.
it certainly not hard power to sustain a ideology spread by sword. It require that Soft Power.
LOLOL No, you don't know hard power. Your words are valued by your hard power. You can say the same thing but if you are weak, you are ignored. If you are strong, people follow. Words are soft power but they are carried and given meaning only by hard power.
There is alot of evidence. you just need to look around. Prolong war if properly executed can accelerate tech development in various fields , remove production bottlenecks in industries. straight out logistics and quickly figure out who has the character and competency. this lay foundation for future recruitment and training.
The only evidence here is that you got dropped on your head as a baby. All the Russians who died in battle, all the heros who sacrificed their lives, needn't do so if Russia had only built up and unleashed its full hard power from the very start. And now you are making "soft power" excuses for why a nation known as the "combat race" has retreated almost as much as it advanced against a country a third its own size.
 
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Another self imposed redline passed. Why do they even bother playing the PR spin every time. We all know it was going to happen sooner or later. Now the question is when did the training start. The British cruise missile were used almost immediately after the announcement. So either NATO operators fired it or they were trained well before the announcement. Didn’t someone mention a rumor pilots were being trained several months ago.

US to allow allied transfers of F-16s to Ukraine – media​

The US government will not block allied countries from sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine if they decide to do so, multiple news outlets reported on Friday, citing American officials.

Sources cited by the
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and other media said the White House is prepared to allow F-16 shipments after months of Ukrainian requests for the aircraft, which is being used by more than two dozen nations.

A senior White House official told NBC that Washington had already informed its partners about the decision.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that “in the coming months, we will work with our allies to determine when the planes will be delivered, who will be delivering them, and how many.”

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced earlier that London would back the creation of an “international coalition” to supply the F-16s and other aircraft to Kiev. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met with the PM this week and lobbied for Western fighter jets, insisting they are needed for Kiev’s much-touted counteroffensive.

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